As the American left continues to indulge its long-suppressed penchant for violence, this editorial from National Review will only continue to get more relevant:
For those at Berkeley celebrating what they believe to be a moral victory, consider this: As much as you may detest Ann Coulter, she has never used violence or the threat of violence to keep someone from speaking. She is a better citizen than you are, with a deeper commitment to genuinely liberal and humane values. You may call yourselves the anti-fascists, but your black-shirt routine — along with your glorification of political violence and your rejection of liberal and democratic norms — suggest that the “anti” part of that formulation is not entirely appropriate. Perhaps you are only young and ignorant, but if you had any power of introspection at all, you would see that you are the thing you believe yourselves to be fighting. You are the oppressors, the censors, the violent, the hateful, the narrow-minded, the reactionary.
All true.
Unfortunately, the left is becoming an entire community of clinical narcissists; they live by gaslighting those around them, and have trained themselves to shunt all their crimes off onto others.
Voltaire: “I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Antifa: “I may disagree with what you say, and if do, I will beat you half to death for trying to say it.”
It’s been going on a long time. One thing that I find particularly troubling is when people, yes especially on the left, will not even consider the possibility that they are wrong. Won’t even say “if this piece of evidence I’ve found is true, how would that change my view of the world?”
Worth noting is that even in Soviet universities, there was a thriving culture of questioning–you can’t work with emigrees and not pick up on this. (right, JPA?) You know you’ve got a problem when your graduates have less motivation to question their assumptions than people who grew up in the Young Pioneers.
BB, very interesting observation and very true. But you have to consider that Russia/USSR is/was a not a monolithic society and prejudice and racism run/ran wild. All of the oppressed groups had a reason to be suspicious and never bought into the “equality” canard because they experienced the opposite on the daily basis. Hence the questioning. In the US, precious snowflakes only experience racism and prejudice when they are told by their elite bettors, there is nothing to question with pabulum they are fed on a daily basis. And parents are too busy working multiple jobs to pay for the privilege of their kids getting brainwashed to educate them in reality, truth and history.